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I grew up in the segregated South, right here in Lynchburg, Virginia.

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Jerry Falwell
Age: 73 †
Born: 1933
Born: August 11
Died: 2007
Died: May 15
Clergyman
Non-Fiction Writer
Preacher
Public Figure
Lynchburg
Virginia
Jerry Lamon Falwell
Sr.
Segregated
Virginia
South
Grew
Right

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I work 6:00 a.m. to midnight, seven days a week.
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And, these Islamic fundamentalists, these radical terrorists, these Middle Eastern monsters are committed to destroying the Jewish nation, driving her into the Mediterranean, conquering the world.
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One thing I have learned about Christians, having organized them for years - when they lose, they quit. And when they win they quit. We are just quitters.
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We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.
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God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.
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My father was an agnostic.
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I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.
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I believe with all my heart that the Bible is the infallible word of God. I therefore believe that, whatever it says, is so.
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If we ever opened a meeting with a prayer, silent or otherwise, we would disintegrate.
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The National Organization of Women is the national organization of witches.
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I don't think I know a Scientologist except when I see one or two of their actors on the Hollywood screen.
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I believe that global warming is a myth. And so, therefore, I have no conscience problems at all and I'm going to buy a Suburban next time.
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I am saying pornography hurts anyone who reads it -- garbage in, garbage out.
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If I were doing something that the Bible condemns, I have two choices. I can straighten up my act, or I can somehow distort and twist and change the meaning of the Bible.
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I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way - all of them who have tried to secularize America - I point the finger in their face and say you helped this happen.
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Homosexuality is Satan's diabolical attack upon the family that will not only have a corrupting influence upon our next generation, but it will also bring down the wrath of God upon America.
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